Fiery photos? Captivating captions? Fabulous feature writing? See how your 2017 overall yearbook stacks up to national design, writing and photography best practices by submitting it to MIPA’s annual Overall Yearbook Contest & Critique. Before you pack up your room for the summer, take a moment to complete the entry form and mail your 2017 yearbook to the MIPA judges. For...

This week, MIPA launched a Pinterest page and boards filled with great links to lessons, ideas for energizing staffs, fonts, photo tips, designs, and much more. If you’d like to see a new board, or suggest pins to boards, please feel free to do so in Pinterest, or by email to regional rep Jami Williams, jwilliams@mexico.k12.mo.us. We would love to expand this interactive tool for all...

By Donald Johnson 1) The “Lights, Camera, Save” video competition is open for students:http://www.aba.com/Engagement/LCS/Pages/default.aspx/. 2) The Capture Conservation Photo Contest is opened at https://contest.thesca.org/. 3) Elementary school students share their views on journalism, reporting, story telling and photography at https://wgecho.org/2016/07/20/junior-journalists-campers-share-opinions-about-reporting/. 4)...

By Michelle Turner East Central College (Union, Mo) is the place to be for high school journalists on Sat., Sept. 24. Leigh Kolb, ECC English and Journalism instructor, and Washington High School’s Blue Jay Journal TV adviser, Michelle Turner, are partnering with the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association and SchoolJournalism.org to bring the first-ever ECC Journalism Summit to life. Registration will start Sept.1. Space is...

#1. StL area folks, Journalism STL is offering an early bird discount and need scholarship committee folks, check it out: http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0b9ef6b5579b8ce05188acb2f&id=f7788aadee&e=30401f297a #2. Six will receive honors via the Missouri School of Journalism in October. This could be a great event to attend. Honorees will conduct classes that day, too:...

Tonight ASNE’s Youth Journalism Initiative will host a Twitter chat on generating fresh story ideas from 8 to 9 p.m. EST. Students and advisers are invited to share story ideas and strategies for finding and developing them. Join the chat using #ASNEchat. If your students are not yet members of ASNE’s Student Advisory Board, they can still apply. Members can join discussions in the board’s private Facebook group and suggest topics for...